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Clinton Considers Tax Breaks
For Long-Term Elderly Care

WASHINGTON -- The Clinton administration is working on a proposal to provide families with tax credits to help defray the cost of long-term care for the elderly and disabled.

Details of the package are still being pieced together, but the initiative has caught the attention of President Clinton and is a leading candidate to be included in the fiscal 2000 budget, aides said. The proposal would respond to concerns about the high cost of...